I remember the 1996 "Placeb-o-matic".. it's on display up at FIRST if anyone ever goes there... clearly the best part of the game that year
Another great robot from 1997 (I don't remember the number) was the Prince/Ottawa team (I think it was there name, I know it was Prince). They had a pretty high reaching arm.. we capped the goal with 4 tubes, got topped by another team (I think Wildstang) with 3-4 tubes and price reached right above the both of us to take the match. An amazing feat to do without falling over...
On top of that, their controls that year for their arm were a miniature version of their robot. They would move the miniature robot arm to wherever they wanted the big arm to be and it followed right along. It was one of the first control systems I saw that broke the generic joysticks & buttons approach..